EDINBORO -- It was close, but not quite as emphatic a win as A.J. Schopp was hoping for.

Wrestling at home for the first time in more than a month, Edinboro throttled Lock Haven 35-6 Saturday before 450 fans at McComb Fieldhouse.

The 16th-ranked Fighting Scots got three pins and two major decisions, won the takedown battle 16-7 and took eight of 10 bouts to snap a two-match losing streak and improve to 7-3 overall and 2-0 in the EWL.

"It was a pretty good win," said the fourth-ranked Schopp, whose pin pushed his record to 22-2. "It kind of would be nice to finally get a shutout for once. We got one last year at Cleveland State. But (this) was solid."

The Scots came close to taking nine of 10. Freshman 184-pounder Vince Pickett couldn't score out of a late scramble and dropped a 3-2 decision to PSAC champion Frank Garcia. Edinboro's other loss came at 125, where two-time conference champ Bobby Rehm beat Kory Mines 9-2.

"It's important to beat the guys you can beat," Edinboro coach Tim Flynn said. "Overall, I thought we did well. Individually, a couple of guys I thought were a little bit flat."

Redshirt freshman Mike DePalma got the dual going with an 8-6 win over Aaron Fry at 157. But after taking a 4-0 lead, DePalma had to hang on when Fry took him down three times in the third period.

Johnny Greisheimer followed with a 6-2 decision at 165, and Jennings snapped a 10-match losing streak with a 10-1 win at 174.

At 184, Pickett gave up a late second-period takedown to Garcia, and that wound up being the difference in the match. Bosch got the momentum back at 197, rolling Joseph Rimel over in bars to get the fall at 4:06.

The afternoon's most-anticipated matchup didn't last long. James, who had split eight career meetings with Lock Haven's Harry Turner, snared a takedown right away and locked up a cradle for a 24-second pin that made it 28-6.

James, ranked 20th by InterMat, has been up and down all season. Five of his seven losses are to ranked opponents, but he also lost to unranked Ziad Haddad of Kutztown at the PSAC championship and unranked Eric Thompson of Grand View at the Midlands.

"I had to refocus," James said. "I wasn't mentally where I wanted to be at the beginning of the year, but I started to refocus and I feel better in the second half."

James (18-7) has won seven of nine overall, with the only losses to No. 11 Connor Medbery of Wisconsin and No. 7 Jarod Trice of Central Michigan -- each by one point.

"Ernest has so much potential, we're just trying to get him to see what he can do," Flynn said. "If he can do that from start to finish, he's a handful."

After Mines lost at 125, Schopp rolled out to an 8-0 lead over Cochranton graduate Matthew Bryer at 133, then locked up a cradle for the fall in 2:04.

Fifth-ranked 141-pounder Mitchell Port (22-3) followed with a solid 4-0 decision over Daniel Neff, and No. 18 Dave Habat (19-7) finished it off by beating Mac Maldarelli 15-5 at 149.

"Some of the wins were really good wins," Flynn said. "Jennings did a nice job, and that was a big one for him. And Mitchell looked good. He did a real nice job against a kid that's pretty good. There were a lot of positives."